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somatome 
2. Of or pertaining to the soma : as, the longi- 
or pertaining to the cavity c 
of the body of an animal, and especially to t 
2. Capable of being dissolved or loosened. Imp. fish, SBun 
the head, neck, trunk, and tail, without , the limbs (6) I 
pamdaria, and Hydrozoa. 
In the Coelenterata, the somatic cavity, or enteroccele. 
2t. Solvent. 
Was this well done of him [David, at Adullam] to be 
pVpe'rHesVexpressed from the 
- stems of a certain plant, and playing an impor- 
, body a whole :co,,tra s tl with death of 
3 Capable of being solved, resolved, or ex 
j_- _i , 4-1-. n fntt wf h narrvai 
Also solrible. 
SOlvableness (sol'va-bl-nes), n. 
Solvay process. See soda, I. 
llitv 
* ' 
P lant > the probable source of the beverage 
soma. It is believed to be of the milkweed family and 
of the species now classed as Sarcostemma MwnUwau 
ic velocity the mass of matter through which a dis- 
turbance is propagated in a unit of time while advan- 
cing along a prism of unit sectional area; mass-velocity. 
lute, etc.] 1. To loosen; disentangle; unrav- and swallomcort. 
el ; hence, to explain or clear up the difficulties 3. In later Hind, myth., the moon, or [cop.J 
of corporeal or material beings only ; one who 
denies the existence of spiritual substances ; a 
materialist. 
in ; resolve ; explain ; make clear ; remove per- deity of the moon. 
their hesitation and confusion, and tore them to pieces. j molecule of protoplasm. 
Bacon, Physical! ables, x. g oma j (go . m - 
The most subtile and powerful intellects have been assembly 
labouring for centuries to mine these difficulties. 
Xactmlay, Sadler's Law of Population. 
2. To determine; put an end to; settle. 
He ... would . . . solve high dispute 
With conjugal caresses. XUton, V. L., vlii. 56. 
Foster. 
gether, + -\/ aj 
Brahmo-Somaj. 
somato-aetiological (so'ma-to-e'ti-o-loj'i-kal), 
SOma-plant (so'ma-plant), . Same :&s soma, 2. sonl atocyst (so'ma-to-sist), n. [< Gr. <TU/O(T-), 
Somaschian (so-mas'ki-an), n. [< Somagclia tne body, + M'ffTic,"bla.dder: see cys*.] The in- 
3. 
on by calculation or mathematical processes, 
so as to bring out the required res" 1 "- - - 
solve a problem in mathematics.-*. To cus- T^r^^ody, V^'wool.] " A 
solve ; melt. [Rare] ^ f A ^J the subfan f ily FMgM**, 
Under the influence of the acid, which partly destroys, ' 
Calycophora, Stphonophora*, and cuts under 1M- 
partly soloes the membranes. 
Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 351. 
SOlvet (solv), n. [< solve, '.] Solution. 
But why thy odour niatcheth not thy show, 
The solve is this, that thou dost common grow. 
Shak., Sonnets, Ixix. 
solvency (sol'ven-si), 11. [< soli-en(t) + -cy.J 
The state of being solvent; ability to pay all 
just debts or just claims. 
Our speech . . . was of tithes and creeds, of beeves and 
grain, of commodities wet and dry, and the solvency of the 
retail dealers. Scoff, Eob Roy, iii. 
solvend (sol'vend), M. [< L. solvendum, fut. 
pass. part, of solvere, loosen, dissolve : see 
solve.'] A substance to be dissolved. 
Solutions differ from chemical compounds in retaining 
the properties both of the solvent and of the solvend. 
. C. Toinlinson. 
solvent (sol'vent), a. and n. [= Sp. It. sol- 
vente, < L. solven(t-)s, ppr. of solvere, loosen, dis- 
solve: see solve.'] I. a. 1. Having the power 
of dissolving : as, a solrent body. 2. Able or 
sufficient to pay all just debts: as, a solrent 
person or estate. Specifically (o) Able to pay one's 
debts as they become due in the ordinary course of busi- 
ness. (6) Having property in such amount and situation 
that all one's debts can be collected out of it by legal pro- 
cess. See insolvency, (c) Of sufficient value to pay all just 
debts : as, the estate is solvent. 
II. M. Any fluid or substance that dissolves 
or renders other bodies liquid ; a menstruum. 
Water is of all solvents the most common and most useful. 
Alcohol is the solvent of resinous bodies and of some 
other similarly constituted substances: naphtha, oil of 
turpentine, and ether are solvents of caoutchouc ; chlorin 
and aqua regia, or nitromuriatic acid, are solvents of gold. 
The universal solvent sought by the alchemists. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. S15. 
solver (sol'ver), n. [< solve + -er 1 .'] One who 
solves, in any sense of the verb. 
SOlvible (sol'vi-bl), a. See solvable. 
solyt, arte. An obsolete form of solely. 
including various marine ducks of large size, 
with copious down on the under parts, with 
' 
^so'ma-to-sis'tik), a. [< soniato- 
+ -ic.'] Vesicular or cystic, as the body- 
of a siphonophorous hydrozoan ; of or 
perta'ining to a somatocyst. 
gomatogenic (s6"ma-to-jen'ik), a. [< Gr. aZ>- 
^a(r-), the body, +" -yevr/t, produced: see -ge- 
nous.'] Originating in the soma, body, orphysi- 
cal organism in consequence of its conditions 
of environment : noting those modifications or 
biological characters which an organism ac- 
quires in reacting upon its material surround- 
ings. 
He [Prof. Weismann] uses the term somatogenic to ex- 
press those characters which first appear in the body it- 
self, and which follow from the reaction of the soma under 
direct external influences. Nature, XL. 531. 
somatologic (s6"ma-to-loj'ik), a. [< somatol- 
og.y + .ic.] Same as 'somatological. 
somatological (s6*ma-to-loj'i-kal), a. [< so- 
matolog-y + -ic-al.'] Of or pertaining to soma- 
tology in any sense, especially to somatology 
as a department of anthropology; physical; 
corporeal; material. 
siform, variously feathered or gibbous bill ; the somatologically (so'ma-to-loj'i-kal-i), adv. As 
eiders or eider-ducks. The common eider is S. mol- regards physique or bodily frame ; physically; 
from the point of view of somatology. Science, 
XII. 227. 
King-duck (Soittatcria spectabilis), male. 
which the female lines the nest, and large, diver- 
lissima; the king-duck is S. spectabilis ; the spectacled 
eider is S. fiscTieri ; Steller's eider is S. stettm. The genus 
somatic (so-mat'ik), a. [= F. somatique, < Gr. 
of, pertaining to the body, bodily, < ow- 
is often dismembered into Somateria proper, Erionetta, 
Lampronetta, and Heniconetta (or Polysticta), respectively Somatology (so-ma-tol'o-jl), n. [= 1 . SOma- 
represented by the four species named. They inhabit arc- toloale < Gr aoudir-), the body, + -fovla. < ?e- 
tic and northerly regions, and are related to the scoters ' , jX, i 1 TWo ooionnA nf liv 
(OSdemia). See Polysticto, and cut under eider-duct. )', speak : see -otogy. ] 1 . I he S 
ing or organized bodies, considered with regard 
only to their physical nature or structure. It in- 
cludes natural hisiory in the usual sense, as embracing 
zoology, botany, anatomy, and physiology, and differs from 
biology only in taking no account of mental or psychologi- 
cal phenomena. Also somaties. 
2. More broadly, physics; the doctrine of mate- 
rial bodies or substances. 3. Specifically, the 
doctrine of the human body, as a department of 
anthropology; human anatomy and physiology; 
/m, the body: see .soma 1 .] 1. Of or pertaining 
to the body or material organism, as distin- 
guished from the soul, spirit, or mind ; physi- 
cal ; corporeal ; bodily. 
It was shown that in the British official nosology mental 
diseases were classified as disorders of the intellect, the 
idea of somatic disease as associated with insanity being 
studiously ignored. Dr. Tuke. 
We need here to call to mind the continuity of our pre- 
sentations, and especially the existence of a background 
also, a treatise on this subject Ant&ropurglc 
somatology. See anthropurgic. 
of organic' sensations aromatic consciousness, as it is va- Somatome (so'ma-tom), n. [For *8vmatotome, 
riously termed. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 68. < Gr. auua(T-), the body, + -rofiof, < rcjiveiv, 
